The group photograph of the U.S. Supreme Court justices customarily taken each year was not taken in 1924. On the basis of seniority Associate Justice James C. McReynolds was supposed to be seated next to Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis for the photograph, but McReynolds refused to pose beside his fellow justice. In 1915 McReynolds, a conservative Democrat from Kentucky, had opposed Brandeis's appointment because he was Jewish. The" Kentuckian never accepted the notion that there should be a "Jewish seat" on the Supreme Court, and he had little regard for the liberal views of Justice Brandeis. He deliberately left the courtroom on several occasions when Brandeis was reading an opinion. Appointed to the court by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914, McReynolds was regarded as the most reactionary member of the Taft Court. He bitterly regretted the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, publicly...